Reflections

Working from Mumbai

I am in Sun's Mumbai office today. (I usually sit at Bangalore.)

This is very small office as compared to Bangalore office, but a very nice one.

It's the small about this that makes it a comfy office.

Whats good about here. Whats bad about here.
1. Everyone knows each other. Except me.

2. Everyone is fine with seating anywhere.This office has a flexi seating arrangement. I am ok with it, but I have to struggle to find a seat.

3. The house keeping guys prepare tea here. Not machine tea and you don't have to prepare it. I don't drink tea normally. But for me there's something else here.

And best of all I get to go home in the evening.

Posted at 03:06PM Oct 05, 2007 by vikram in Sun  | 

Open Solaris

I just installed Solaris Nevada build 66 Developer Express on a Hp Laptop.
What can I say - the installation is just as expected.Brilliant.

Some of the best points.
1. Intel PRO 3945 wireless Card support.(I wanted it desperately).
2. SATA harddisk detection.
3. Most drivers work correctly.
4. And Solaris - thats the best part.

Additional feel good points.
1. Battery indicator.
2. Better Sound quality feel than Vista(My personal opinion).

Additional tasks required.
1. Install OSS drivers for sound card detection.
2. No games are installed- I mean real good 3d games.

Go ahead try it yourself.

http://www.opensolaris.org

Would like to know if anyone had experiences otherwise.

Posted at 09:15PM Jun 26, 2007 by vikram in Sun  |  Comments[1]

Java One

Java One 2007 was held this week in US Moscone Center, SF.

Do Visit the link to the java one home page.

Go to Java One Home Page

Posted at 03:16PM May 11, 2007 by vikram in Sun  | 

Volunteer Activity

Last week was celebrated as Volunteer week in Sun Worldwide.
I too participated in one of the events. The point of eliciting this is just the background for me writing this.

Where I worked previously too, there were certain events that happened. However, the company was not so encouraging for employee participation. This is one thing that I have liked about Sun.
Figures for the worldwide participation would be out soon. This would be a milestone by itself. Last year around this time I was not around at Sun, but had a lot of data thrown at me.
This year as I gather from senior guys there was much wider participation at IEC compared to last year, so the figures would be much larger.
Great work Sun. Hope to continue this effort.

Posted at 02:51PM Apr 24, 2007 by vikram in Sun  |